Aperture

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Aperture

So you know what aperture is if you've gotten into photography a bit... if not think of your eye, specifically the iris. It is your eye's aperture, when it's bright it closes to decrease the amount of light getting in and increases in the dark to let the most light in.
This is a pretty interesting application I think.

Reduce, Recycle, Sit

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Recycled Furniture


Some interesting recycled products for your living room and patio. For those of you that are into recycling this is a great way to continue the cycle, or you could even try holding onto all those milk jugs and making your own deck chairs out of them... let me know how that one goes.

"Lawn Furniture"...

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Lawn/Sod Furniture

Pretty cool, although might be a pain to mow/weed-wack/trim. Definitely an interesting conversation starter for BBQs though. Or if you want a simpler piece to begin with here's a smaller design...

Grass Chair

No the question is what else can they make out of dirt and grass...

LiTraCon

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LiTraCon

I came across this a while ago when I was researching different processing techniques of concrete. Pretty cool stuff, pretty pricey as well. Light Transmitting Concrete, basically is just concrete with embedded fiber-optics allowing for light transmission through the concrete. When you start reading more about how difficult it is to manufacture you can get an idea of why this stuff is so pricey. Makes you want to figure out a poor-man's solution to make your own.

Extreme Wood Bending

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Extreme Wood Bending
and additionally more from the same group can be seen at:
Fluted Beams LLC

These are pretty cool and definitely extreme ways to work with materials resulting in very unique looks for a lot of different applications. The first two that come to my mind are sculpture and contemporary furniture designs, but as you'll see on the Fluted Beams site there are many other applications.